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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Title page. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John William Cousin (1849–1910), published in 1910. Most of the entries consist of only one paragraph but some entries, like William Shakespeare's, are quite lengthy.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography is a specialist biographical dictionary dedicated to literature. Published by Gale , the 375-volume set [ 1 ] covers a wide variety of literary topics, periods, and genres, with a focus on American and British literature .
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource. If there is no SBDEL article on Wikisource then use the |title=article name parameter for example {{SBDEL|title=Abbott, Jacob}} produces: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910).
Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature which focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways. [ 1 ]
The Literary Encyclopedia is an online reference work first published in October 2000. [1] It was founded as an innovative project, designed to bring the benefits of information technology to what at the time was still a largely conservative literary field.
Thanatos has also been portrayed as a slumbering infant in the arms of his mother Nyx, or as a youth carrying a butterfly (the ancient Greek word "ψυχή" can mean soul or butterfly, or life, amongst other things) or a wreath of poppies (poppies were associated with Hypnos and Thanatos because of their hypnogogic traits and the eventual death ...
The International Booker Prize is a similar British award given for outstanding literary fiction translated into English. This complements the earlier Booker Prize, which is awarded to fiction in the English language. For both judges are selected from amongst leading literary critics, writers, academics and public figures.